Sundown, Wyoming 1871. In the heart of the untamed West, where legends are forged and secrets run deep...A young lawyer, Wyatt McCrea seems to have it all, a flourishing career and a beautiful fiancée, the wealthy daughter of his powerful boss. His idyllic life shatters when he learns his estranged brother Travis has been arrested for murder in the mysterious town of Sundown, Wyoming. Leaving everything behind, Wyatt embarks on a dangerous journey into a world of corruption, desire ...

Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - Haunting Tales from CanadaAn anthology of 19 short stories and flash fiction written by authors living in Canada.Ghosts may appear in many forms, and haunt many places as the tales in this book will demonstrate.From the prairies to lakes to cities... ghosts are here, all around us from coast to coast to coast.Fiction by the following authors:Nadia Steven Rysing, Nissa Harlow, Kristal Stittle, Rosalind Goldsm...

1.6 seconds. That’s how long it takes to fall two stories. That’s how long it takes for life to change.When Michael Murphy was 21, he fell off a roof at college and landed flat on his back, severing his spine. They say that nobody understands their own traumatic injury just after it happens—but Michael did. Every person falls. They fall short in school, in life, in work, and in love. Their lives sometimes feel punctuated by those downfalls—the rejection letters, th...

The bestselling classic novel about an American traveler’s spiritual journey into the world of golfWhen Michael Murphy first meets golf pro Shivas Irons on one of the most beautiful courses in Scotland, he doesn’t know that his life—and his golf game—will change forever. But with the first swing of the Scotsman’s club Murphy realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day.By turns comic, philosophical, mythic, and autobiographical, this tale traces the arc o...

Michael Murphy's second volume of prose, The House of Pure Being, charts the author's experiences and revelations since the release of his best-selling memoir, At Five in the Afternoon. In this sequel, he brings the inspiring stories of his women friends up to date, tackles difficult subjects like the lingering effects of cancer, and the passing of Aengus Fanning (former editor of the Sunday Independent), and writes movingly of his Civil Partnership ceremony to his long-time partner Terry....

Michael Murphy, bestselling author of Golf in the Kingdom, explains the power of athletics to transform the body, mind, and spiritAthletes and coaches often say they feel "in the zone" while participating in sports or other endeavors, and Esalen Institute cofounder Michael Murphy carefully documents this phenomenon in one of the most comprehensive works of its kind. Murphy and coauthor Rhea A. White categorize twenty types of extraordinary athletic feats, ...

Golf in the Kingdom author Michael Murphy's Cold War thriller, based on true eventsSomeone is tracking Darwin Fall, a scholar whose expertise in supernormal powers is second to none. As Darwin begins a search of his own for the legendary Soviet spy Vladimir Kirov, he uncovers a secret network of spies, scientists, and rogue agents working together to harness the occult powers that could put "an end to ordinary history."Michael Murphy, a master of f...

A spiritual thriller by the bestselling author of Golf in the KingdomAs publisher, writer, and researcher, Darwin Fall has gathered a wide range of evidence for human nature's supernormal capacities—but his photographs and case stories can only take him so far. He needs living proof. So when a mysterious man named Jacob Atabet disturbs morning mass at a Catholic church in his neighborhood, Fall thinks he may have found just what he's looking for, setting i...

A ruthless, greedy ship captain.An assassin’s intrigue.A ferocious battle with the Tlingit.In 1795, Russia dominates the Pacific fur trade. Cultures clash on every shore as explorers sail the unknown waters of Pacific North America.Brothers Grigori and Mikhail Romanukski, born to early American settlers of Spanish-Russian heritage, join the crew of the Russian brigantine Phoenix. Their journey along untamed shores takes them to ancient China and a shapeshifter...

In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft because of a single, utterly avoidable mathematical error. The Mars Climate Orbiter was designed to study the Martian atmosphere, but as it approached the red planet, it descended too low and violently disintegrated in the upper atmosphere. The root cause was not a mechanical failure, but a humiliating miscommunication between two engineering teams. One team at Lockheed Martin programmed the spacecraft's thruster software using English imperial ...

From “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live.We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for those that can afford them. But in reality, all the spaces we inhabit—to work, to learn, to heal, and to live—have been planned and built to influence our lives. They sway...

In Michael Murphy’s action-packed Prohibition-era novel of suspense, a mystery writer returns to the bright lights and dark alleys of New York City—uncovering a criminal conspiracy of terrifying proportions.In 1933, America is at a crossroads: Prohibition will soon be history, organized crime is rampant, and President Roosevelt promises to combat the Great Depression with a New Deal. In these uncertain times, former-Pinkerton-detective-turned-bestselling-author Jak...